The Disaster Artists: Paul Celan and Yoko Tawada’s Delicate Dialectic - Cleveland Review of Books

Celan pushes what is light and human in his work into the background, to bring tragedy to the fore. Tawada does the opposite, pushing tragedy into the background to foreground what is light and human. Paul Celan and The Trans-Tibetan Angel is where they meet.

The Disaster Artists: Paul Celan and Yoko Tawada’s Delicate Dialectic Duncan Stuart · October 17, 2024 Yoko Tawada, transl. Susan Bernofsky | Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel | New Directions | July 2024 | 144 Pages There is a certain delicacy to the novels of Yoko Tawada. They possess a lightness that is unusual, especially given her themes. Against the backdrop of dying cultures and apocalypse, her characters float across the surface of her pages, not so much unbothered as they are unimpeded. It is strange then that one of her most recent works, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan

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